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13-letter words containing k, i, l, a

  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • memorial park — cemetery.
  • metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
  • mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
  • milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
  • national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • nizam al-mulk — title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali. ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
  • packing plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
  • painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
  • palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
  • panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
  • reindeer lake — a lake in central Canada, in NE Saskatchewan and NW Manitoba. 2444 sq. mi. (6330 sq. km).
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